Friday, July 15th 2022
Lian Li Launches LANCOOL III—Pushing the Boundaries of Cooling Performance
LIAN LI Industrial Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of chassis and PC accessories, announces the latest addition to the LANCOOL series with the LANCOOL III. Designed to provide the best-in-series stock performance, the LANCOOL III comes equipped with a redesigned front panel with 51% porosity, four pre-installed 140 mm PWM fans, and simultaneously support up to three 360 mm radiators at the top, front, and bottom. The LANCOOL III features an updated front panel design with continuous aluminium strips which act as side panel handles, and an improved cable management solution. The LANCOOL III is available in black or white, and RGB or non-RGB editions.
To deliver great out-of-the-box performance, the LANCOOL III is air-flow optimized with a 51% porosity front mesh panel, fine mesh panels at the top and both sides of the PSU shroud, and four pre-installed 140 mm PWM fans. The LANCOOL III provides a wide range of cooling compatibility options, allowing users to install up to a 360 mm radiator at the front on the multi-position bracket, above the PSU shroud (80 mm thick max), and up to a 420 mm radiator at the top (75 mm thick max) in an offset position with enough clearance for 60 mm tall memory sticks. With support for up to E-ATX motherboards, 420 mm long graphics cards, and ATX PSUs, the LANCOOL III also offers multiple storage solutions for mounting up to 12 x 2.5" SSDs or 4 x 3.5" HDDs and 8 x 2.5" SSDs.
[Editor's Note: We have now posted our in-depth review of the Lian LI LANCOOL III]
Functional New Look
The LANCOOL III sports a futuristic look with its two brushed aluminium strips located at the front. Each strip doubles as a door handle for the right and left side tempered glass panels. With a modern I/O located at the top of the front panel (Power button, Reset button, two USB 3.0, USB Type C, Audio), users have the option to relocate it to the bottom for easier access when the case is placed on a desk.
For the LANCOOL III RGB, the I/O panel is equipped with additional RGB control buttons to provide lighting customization to the 3 x 140 mm ARGB pre-installed fans at the front.
Advanced Cable Management
The second chamber of the LANCOOL III provides comprehensive cable management to ensure the case is looking its best. Behind two removable cover panels mounted on hinges and magnetically closed, 8x Velcro straps are built into the case. Three large Velcros with multiple channels to organize and separate the front panel cables, motherboard 24-pin and GPU power cables, and fan hubs. Around the motherboard area, 5x smaller Velcro straps are installed for routing cables such as the CPU EPS cable and storage drives. In addition, there is enough room for the mounting of up to four fan/ARGB hubs.
Vertical GPU Additional Accessory
Vertical GPU mounting is also possible in the LANCOOL III by using the O11D EVO vertical GPU kit. Users have the option of a black or white kit that's equipped with a PCIe 3.0 or 4.0 riser cable. The vertical GPU kit can be installed in the LANCOOL III at different heights with a lower position leaving 6 mm of clearance between the kit and the top of the PSU shroud, and a higher position leaving 46 mm of clearance for fans and a radiator above the PSU shroud.
The LANCOOL III is available for pre-order starting July 15th, 2022.
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To deliver great out-of-the-box performance, the LANCOOL III is air-flow optimized with a 51% porosity front mesh panel, fine mesh panels at the top and both sides of the PSU shroud, and four pre-installed 140 mm PWM fans. The LANCOOL III provides a wide range of cooling compatibility options, allowing users to install up to a 360 mm radiator at the front on the multi-position bracket, above the PSU shroud (80 mm thick max), and up to a 420 mm radiator at the top (75 mm thick max) in an offset position with enough clearance for 60 mm tall memory sticks. With support for up to E-ATX motherboards, 420 mm long graphics cards, and ATX PSUs, the LANCOOL III also offers multiple storage solutions for mounting up to 12 x 2.5" SSDs or 4 x 3.5" HDDs and 8 x 2.5" SSDs.
[Editor's Note: We have now posted our in-depth review of the Lian LI LANCOOL III]
The LANCOOL III sports a futuristic look with its two brushed aluminium strips located at the front. Each strip doubles as a door handle for the right and left side tempered glass panels. With a modern I/O located at the top of the front panel (Power button, Reset button, two USB 3.0, USB Type C, Audio), users have the option to relocate it to the bottom for easier access when the case is placed on a desk.
For the LANCOOL III RGB, the I/O panel is equipped with additional RGB control buttons to provide lighting customization to the 3 x 140 mm ARGB pre-installed fans at the front.
Advanced Cable Management
The second chamber of the LANCOOL III provides comprehensive cable management to ensure the case is looking its best. Behind two removable cover panels mounted on hinges and magnetically closed, 8x Velcro straps are built into the case. Three large Velcros with multiple channels to organize and separate the front panel cables, motherboard 24-pin and GPU power cables, and fan hubs. Around the motherboard area, 5x smaller Velcro straps are installed for routing cables such as the CPU EPS cable and storage drives. In addition, there is enough room for the mounting of up to four fan/ARGB hubs.
Vertical GPU Additional Accessory
Vertical GPU mounting is also possible in the LANCOOL III by using the O11D EVO vertical GPU kit. Users have the option of a black or white kit that's equipped with a PCIe 3.0 or 4.0 riser cable. The vertical GPU kit can be installed in the LANCOOL III at different heights with a lower position leaving 6 mm of clearance between the kit and the top of the PSU shroud, and a higher position leaving 46 mm of clearance for fans and a radiator above the PSU shroud.
The LANCOOL III is available for pre-order starting July 15th, 2022.
10 Comments on Lian Li Launches LANCOOL III—Pushing the Boundaries of Cooling Performance
Yet ANUTHA rectangular boxen of yesteryear, just with a few neat options (the flip down cover on the bottom & the option of moving the I/O panel to the bottom) added in for kicks :)
But hey, at least it has USB-C and a reasonable price, so there's that, hehehehe :D
Nice case btw.
Note that the PSU shroud itself is not adjustable so the presence of the power supply (which could be an SFX unit) doesn't affect accessibility to the motherboard or other components.
If you do install fans on the PSU shroud, add those after you have made all of the header connections at the bottom of an ATX board because the fans do impede access to that area. You typically need to install the fans before you install the graphics card otherwise you won't be able to tighten the far screws if there's a graphics card right above. The PSU shroud fans will also block the bottom PCIe slot.
If you install a micro-ATX or mini-ITX motherboard, PSU shroud fans don't block access.
3x140mm fans out of the box? winner. update: AND the rear fan. Very winner.
Specs seem on the loud side, but if they're meant to be good for radiators/AIO's that makes sense.
Glass on the back? nooooo. That's where we hide the spaghetti! (Update: so many covers for everything. But why have glass, AND covers?)
My ARGB controller uses a 2.5" mount so it'd have this massive visible wire spaghetti :(
The covers are great, but it's such an odd choice to expose the 2.5" bays - were they expecting RGB SSD's or something in that space?
Would have been better if they made the side panel out of those covers, opened out like fancy car doors from the middle - or had optional replacements to slap in side-exhaust for even more radiator placement options
8 Expansion slots and not 7? Absolutely rare on mid-tower sized cases.
Optionally moving the IO to the bottom will be an asbolute winner with certain crowds - floor PC users want it on the top, while some desk users would salivate over that bottom mount
That top cover is... interesting.
It's ventilated all over for passively letting heat out, but if you're running a top rad it feels like the airflow will be restricted and simultaneously you'll lose a lot of guided airflow since it'll just pass either side of the radiator instead of through it
How much of this central area is the fan hubs, where no airflow comes from?
The review shows CPU temperatures are low so maybe I'm missing something, or maybe the great stock fan setup helps keep the temps down vs other cases with less default fans.
Heck, if you covered up some of that extra vents at the top the front fans could probably passively push enough air through to cool it.
The bottom mounted radiators on top of the PSU shroud is genius IMO - that area of my R6 is wasted space, and depending on thickness i feel like you could possibly sneak a slim 360mm rad under that, with the fans on top for a really sleek setup
magnetic PSU flap is great. I love solid PSU covers, but my Fractal R6 is a pain in the butt when you want to move PSU Cables, as you can access from the rear panel only
Built in velcro hooks are cool, but when they age and break how easy to replace with generics are they?
I like the rubber grommet + thumbscrew mounting method for mech drives - anti vibration is a big deal, and it makes hotswap easy while people not using spinning rust get to keep those parts out of the case
I like the case. The back panel seems horrendous to me, exposing what i'd want hidden - but it's got a lot of good design choices in there too (confusing top radiator plate TBD)